"being undocumented, so for you I don’t exist" - "hard to talk about, but when I did start to talk to others I felt no different from them and I wasn’t embarrassed" - "every agency wanting the same papers. And more photocopies every time" - "being old and living alone. I am sick. I am afraid of loneliness … I cry a lot but try to look calm and collected when I go out." - "stealing our future by keeping us out of touch with the knowledge-based society" - "being paid regularly, but my debts still mounting up anyway" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "days without bread are the longest days" - "constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions" - "my children inheriting my poverty" - "what really wears homeless people out is time. Always waiting, always being on the go…" - "waking up in bad housing conditions which saps the will to do anything"

SMES-MHSE Mental Health & Social Exclusion - Europa (SMES-EUROPA )

SMES-Europa is a non-profit International Association (aisbl) operates at the interface, intersection of mental health and social exclusion for improving mental, physical & social well-being, promoting human right & access to social and health services, to citizenship and participation, to inclusion and solidarity in European Countries for people living in in extremely poor health & social conditions.

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Planned activities

Event 1. Athens, 25-26 February 2010 - European Seminar: Invisible wounds - Dignity and Vulnerability: Migrants integration through active participation and inclusive solidarity. The seminar will be a forum for exchange of ideas, experiences and proposals concerning migrant’s condition. Specific topics : a) Human rights and respect of dignity; b) Health and Mental Health; c) Participation and employment; d) Integration home and multiethnic cohesion. Event 2. Bucharest, November 2010, XI European Conference: Sharing and participating: freedom from poverty and to live in Health and Dignity as a challenge for active and sustainable inclusion. Aim : increasing Right and Access to health/mental health and social services, well-being for the most deprived people. Themes : 1. deinstitutionalisation: poverty and health/mental health in the city; 2. outreach: to meet people, to accompany and promote access in services and reinsertion; 3. empowerment and participation for sustainable and active inclusion.

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